Mrs. Rudisill's Students Use a Rubber Band to Learn About Potential Energy

Students were introduced to the idea of potential energy through an experiment involving the elasticity of a rubber band. They compared the distance a rubber band is pulled back to the flight distance of the rubber band. It helped them to understand that an object does not have to be in motion to have energy and that potential energy is due to an objects position or stored energy.

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